Completed · Success
NASA's Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) launched on a SpaceX Falcon 9 from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California. On Sept. 26, 2022, it impacted the asteroid moonlet Dimorphos, which orbits the larger asteroid Didymos.
- Launch vehicle
- SpaceX Falcon 9
- Launch site
- Vandenberg Space Force Base, California
- Countries
- United States
- Mission types
- Impactor
Chronology
Mission timeline
Mission architecture
Vehicles
Trajectory record
Trajectory dataset not yet available
No verified trajectory dataset is committed for this mission, so Mission Atlas renders no path.
Provenance
Sources
Each source is listed once and labeled with the mission, event, trajectory, or destination/body context it supports.
Data verified through September 4, 2026
- Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) - NASA Science — NASAMission page · Supports: mission claims · destination/body context · event claims
- Didymos & Dimorphos - NASA Science — NASAMission page · Supports: mission claims
- Planetary defence mission Hera heading for deflected asteroid - ESA — ESAMission page · Supports: destination/body context
- Planet Sizes and Locations in Our Solar System — NASAOther · Supports: destination/body context